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Basic Pickguard Assembly Kit Description
With our Basic Gilmour style Black
Strat pickguard assembly kit you'll receive all the
components shown above in the top photograph, all you have to do is add
your choice of pickups, assemble, wire and
solder it all up and your ready to rock-n-roll...
We do not perform any assembly or construction of this
item, this is a DIY assembly kit where you'll be
performing all assembly, wiring and soldering.
Each of the 5 pickguard selection
options are our own custom manufactured 0.120" Acrylic 1 Ply
pickguards with the Rounded and Polished Perimeter Edge.
They are available in black or white. For a limited time
we also have a reverse angle bridge pickup black Acrylic
pickguard, see full description below.
We offer a number of accessory color
options for this kit. The accessories consist of the
pickup covers, knobs, switch tip and tremolo arm tip. We offer the
standard colors such as white, parchment, aged white and
black. We also offer an option called
"Combination", this combination option is the same as
found on the Custom Shop Relic Gilmour Black Strat
where the knobs are Aged White and the pickup covers,
switch tip and tremolo arm tip are Parchment. To further accurately
reproduce this Relic version we can customize your knob
set with the Dark Green Letters and Numbers for an
additional $30.00. To get a feel for the
combination accessory colors with the dark green letters
and number check out our Black Strat
#6 build project. To accurately reproduce the NOS
version select Parchment for the accessory color.
Each of our 1 ply 0.120” Acrylic
pickguards with the rounded and polished edge are custom
hand manufactured in our shop specifically for each
customer. They start off being cut out of a sheet of
Acrylic with a CNC laser which creates the basic
pickguard shape with all holes and cutouts. We then
create the pickguards round-over edge effect by hand
with a table router where the pickguard is affixed to a
routing template where we trim the pickguard to it’s
final size and create the rounded perimeter edge. From
there the pickguards rounded edge is hand sanded with a
fine sandpaper to remove any tooling marks left
behind by the router bit. The smoothly
sanded rounded edge can then be polished with a special
buffing wheel and a polishing compound used exclusively
for Acrylic which creates the highly polished and
glossy rounded edge. The pickguards mounting holes
are then countersunk, copper foil shielding tape is
applied to the control region and a final polishing of
the entire pickguard is completed. It’s a
fairly long process of 1 hour to create one of these unique
pickguards, but we feel that final product is one that
stands above the typical Strat® pickguard that have been
produced the same way for over 50 years. This
unique rounded and polished pickguard edge is only
available on our Black or White 1 Ply 0.120" Acrylic
pickguards. Pickup and 5-way switch mounting holes are
not countersunk and require round head mounting screws.
A significant
feature of this kit is the recessed mini toggle
switch. It's a unique feature that is synonymous
with Gilmour's Black Strat. We manufacture our
switch mounting bracket from a sturdy piece of custom
formed stainless steel that is strong and easily
mountable underneath the volume and tone potentiometers.
It is not a permanent piece of the pickguard, but when
installed becomes an integral part of it. The
function of this recessed mini-toggle switch is to
provide you with two additional pickup selection
positions by adding in the neck pickup to the current
selection of the 5-way selector switch. This includes the bridge and neck
pickups selected together in parallel with one another
which is similar in tone as a Telecaster and the second
additional pickup selection is to have all three pickups
selected together in parallel.
The pickup and selector switch
mounting screw holes accept
Phillips round head screws.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Our Acrylic
pickguards are 0.120" thick (+/- a few thousands of an
inch) so keep this pickguard thickness in mind when
installing a 0.120" thick Acrylic pickguard on a Strat®
with a 22 fret neck, make sure you measure the total
amount of clearance you have underneath your 22'nd fret
overhang and the surface of your body to ensure that
there is enough room to accommodate the 0.120" thick
Acrylic pickguard with at least a few thousands of an
inch of extra clearance for breathing room between the
top surface of the Acrylic pickguard and the underside
of the 22'nd fret overhang. The vast majority of 22 fret
necks and body combinations will work fine with our
0.120" thick Acrylic pickguards but we have seen a rare
few that won't and will need some sort of adjustment for
correct fitment. You DO NOT want to tighten down any
neck where its 22'nd fret overhang makes contact with
the surface of the pickguard, you could very well lift
the fingerboard away from the neck by the leveraging
forces of tightening down the neck.
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